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Record rains and power outages: Henry's storm hits the northeastern United States

Tropical storm Henry hit the northeast with high winds and heavy rain on Sunday, Aug.22, leaving most of coastal Rhode Island without power, forcing Connecticut residents to evacuate. Dozens of motorists in New Jersey were trapped in water, and rainfall in New York hit record highs. The edition told in more detail The New York Times.

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But the storm, weakened by the hurricane, rid Rhode Island of the worst of what had been predicted, and quickly lost its strength as it moved north. At its peak on Sunday afternoon, it left more than 140 residents from New Jersey to Maine without electricity.

Henry, the second tropical storm to hit the Northeast this season after Elsa last month, prompted Providence, Rhode Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, to close hurricane barriers at their ports. This was first done during Storm Sandy in 2012.

Showers are expected to continue in the region until Monday evening, August 23, said Dominic Ramunni, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service on Long Island.

Flood warnings are valid until Monday evening in parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire. By the evening of August 22, the storm turned into a tropical depression.

The rains, foreshadowing the arrival of a storm, reached New York on Saturday night, August 21, interrupting a concert in Central Park just as Barry Manilow was about to perform "Can't Smile Without You."

Between 22 p.m. and 00 p.m., 23 inches (00 cm) of rain fell in Central Park, a record amount of rain recorded in the city in one hour, the weather service said. The daily rainfall total of 1,94 inches (5 cm) set a record for Aug. 4,45, and the rainfall total of 11,3 inches (21 cm) that fell by Sunday evening was the highest, Ramunni said. two days after Hurricane Irene in 7,04.

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In Newark, New Jersey, ambulance workers have rescued more than 80 people trapped in cars in flooded streets, including 16 children, according to city officials. Massive road flooding has been reported in New Jersey and New York.

Much of downtown Montauk, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island, has been closed.

To the west, in Long Beach, a few brave or reckless surfers rode the high waves. Near Jones Beach, Andy Lawrence, 76, and his 8-year-old granddaughter Harper were among a few people. “We are a family of storm chasers,” Lawrence said.

Harper added, "I like the wind so strong."

The storm provided outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo one last opportunity to showcase his emergency management skills.

Cuomo has declared a state of emergency so that New York can use federal funds to prepare for floods and other possible aftermaths of the storm, although he admitted that officials did not expect "any real significant damage." Cuomo announced that he would step down on August 23 in the evening due to a sexual harassment scandal. A state of emergency has also been declared in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

When it rained, most rail services in New York and Connecticut were canceled, hundreds of flights were canceled at airports, and parts of the New York City subway system were briefly stopped.

Connecticut authorities have issued evacuation orders for coastal parts of several cities, including East Haven, Madison, Groton and Branford. State officials said about 250 residents of four nursing homes — in Old Saybrook, Mystic, Guilford and West Haven — were evacuated.

Rhode Island officials closed three bridges due to high winds and banned motorcycles and tractors with trailers.

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Massachusetts closed 400-ton steel hurricane barrier doors in port in New Bedford. The ships that entered were packed tightly, with wooden sailboats and luxury yachts stuck alongside the rusty fishing boats more typical of an industrial harbor. Those still at sea were expected to find another port.

A 09-foot (00 m) wave was recorded off Block Island, south of the Rhode Island mainland, around 19:5,7. At 11:00 the center of the storm passed over Block Island, and at 12:15, Henry came ashore in Westerly, Rhode Island, with sustained winds of 57 miles (91 km) per hour in neighboring Port Judith and gusts of up to 70 miles ( 112 km) per hour.

Wind and rain have knocked down trees and power lines across the state, leaving 80 homes in Rhode Island without electricity, according to the National Grid utility.

Towards the end of the day, the storm went northwest through Connecticut, headed towards Western Massachusetts and, as expected, pushed east along southern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine before heading out to sea again.

On the Massachusetts coast, an approaching storm awakened Hurricane Bob, which killed more than a dozen people, caused $ 680 million in damage and reshaped the Cape Cod coastline in 1991.

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